Fast Company Features

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Charlene Li on Flaming Laptops, Sleeping Technicians, and the Streisand Effect

Fast Interview: The author talks about why power is shifting from companies to people and why trying to stop it is like "trying to take pee out of a pool."

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Can ChaCha's Humans Compete with Google's Algorithms?

Scott A. Jones talks about the human-guided search engine, competition from other sites, and how ChaCha embraces a Wikipedia-esque structure.

Fast Talk

Question: Does the deal struck between Google and the creator of Family Guy have longterm implications for how we will consume our media?

Answer: Are you kidding me? Alfred Hitchcock himself could come back from the dead and product a thirteen part miniseries embedded in the sidebar of all my... | posted by Jon Gos

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Question: How bad is it for Microsoft that Intel has decided not to upgrade the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Vista?

Answer: Yeah, it's bad. But, whether it's bad or not, Microsoft isn't going to collapse over it. They're too rich and too entrenched -- they have income from... | posted by Reagan Cardwell

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Member Blogs

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The importance of social networks and it's growing responsibility in the society.

How many times we've heard that we live in technology driven and technology oriented societies ? It would be safe to say that everyone in western...

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Do Things Happen for a Reason?

Web of Fate, a semantic analysis engine that extracts...

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Life Online Just Got a Little More Real

The line between the real world and the online world got a little more fuzzy today. Vivaty (www.Vivaty.com) just announced the launch of their...

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The New Accountability: Felix Unger Will Stop Paying for Oscar Madison

There was a story in a recent Wall Street Journal about a new technology...

FC Now Staff Blogs

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BlackBerry Kickstart Only $50?

RIM [TSE:RIM] has done a shamefully poor job of keeping the prototypes of their first BlackBerry flip phone, the Kickstart, under wraps, and...

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WorkFast.TV: Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek

This week WorkFast.TV comes a day early to accommodate July 4, Independence Day. The guest...

Member Comments

Article: The U.S. has fewer people employed in high-tech jobs today than in 2001, because it refuses to issue enough green cards.

Comment: Nonsense. The U.S. has fewer people employed in high-tech jobs today than in 2001, because it refuses to educate its youth. | posted by member David Saxton

Article: The U.S. has fewer people employed in high-tech jobs today than in 2001, because it refuses to issue enough green cards.

Comment: Well, I worked in the tech industry until 2001. I left because the bursting dot.com bubble had caused panic layoffs to ensue, and after that, the few... | posted by member Charlie Hancock